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BEGINNINGS THE PORTRAIT 1 Demolition of housing for 8 Iron workers, Wales the building of Bowling — William Clayton Iron Works, Bradford — 1865 — Photographer unknown — Manchester City Galleries — about 1870 9 Fairburn Lawson Combe — Museums and Galleries, & Barbour Ltd, Leeds City of Bradford MDC — Photographer unknown 2 Steam engine, Victoria — 1940s Mustard Works, Doncaster — Leeds Museums and Galleries — Photographer unknown (Leeds Industrial Museum) — 1900 10 Knocker up, Bradford — Doncaster Heritage Services — Photographer unknown 3 Construction of drinking — 1890 fountain, Oldham — Museums and Galleries, 19 Wigan pit brow lasses: — Photographer unknown City of Bradford MDC Carte de visites, Wigan — about 1865 11 Women munitions — Photographer unknown — Gallery Oldham workers, Earlestown, — about 1880 4 Workers clearing debris, Newton le Willows — Doncaster Heritage Services Leeds — Photographer unknown 20 Unemployed workers, — Photographer unknown — 1915 Tyneside — 1880 “Photographs of newly arrived Asian and — Courtesy of Manchester — Humphrey Spender — Leeds Museums and Galleries Caribbean workers at work are rare. There Libraries, Information and — 1936 (Leeds Industrial Museum) seemed to be a reluctance by some Archives, Manchester City — Collection Ian Beesley photographers and workers to capture this Council 5 Workers constructing 21 Cleaner, Lancashire development in Britain’s manufacturing sector.” Roker Pier, Sunderland 12 Unemployed man, and Yorkshire Railway — Photographer unknown “For some members of the working class, their first Bradford Company, Manchester — 29 October 1886 introduction to photography came courtesy of the — Christopher Pratt — Photographer unknown — Tyne and Wear Archives police. As early as 1865 police forces in England — 1900 — 1914-1918 had embraced the new technology to record and Museums INDUSTRIALISATION — Museums and Galleries, — Courtesy of Manchester 27 The construction of the and identify criminals. These early portraits City of Bradford MDC Libraries, Information 6 Construction of Manchester Ship Canal, embraced Victorian theories that criminals could and Archives, Manchester Manchester Ship Canal, Manchester 13 End of shift at the be identified by the shape of their head and hands. City Council Manchester — W E Birtles The unfortunate sitters often appear dirty, unwell Vulcan Foundry, Sheffield — W E Birtles — Tim Smith — 1887-1893 and malnourished. Larceny (theft) was a common 22 Coal miner, Lancashire — 1887-1893 — 1980s — Chetham’s Library, reason for arrest.” — Photographer unknown — Chetham’s Library, Manchester — Museums and Galleries, — 1880s Manchester City of Bradford MDC — Collection Ian Beesley 28 Dyehouse, Salts Mill, 7 Brass foundry, Wallsend Saltaire, West Yorkshire 14 Mill girls, Elland, 23 Police identification Slipway — Date 1890s West Yorkshire book of criminals arrested — Photographer unknown — Photographer unknown — John Bulmer in North Shields — 1900 — Collection Ian Beesley — 1960 — Photographer unknown — Tyne and Wear Archives — Loaned by the photographer — 1902-1916 29 Construction of the and Museums — Tyne and Wear Archives Manchester Ship Canal, 15 Pit brow lasses, Wigan and Museums Manchester — Millard — W E Birtles — 1865 24 Eleanor Gardner, arrested — 1887-1893 — Collection Ian Beesley in North Shields — Chetham’s Library, 16 Portrait of an unknown — Photographer unknown Manchester worker, Exmouth — 19 February 1909 — Tyne and Wear Archives 30 Engineering works, Leeds — W Beer and Museums — Photographer unknown — about 1880 — 1870 — Collection Ian Beesley 25 Police identification — Leeds Museums and Galleries 17 Unknown worker, Leeds book of criminals arrested (Leeds Industrial Museum) — Photographer unknown in North Shields — Photographer unknown 31 Construction of the — 1940s — 1902-1916 Manchester Ship Canal, — Leeds Museums and Galleries — Tyne and Wear Archives Manchester (Leeds Industrial Museum) and Museums — W E Birtles 18 Spinner, Lister’s Mill, — 1887-1893 Bradford 26 Robert Muir, miner — Chetham’s Library, — Ian Beesley arrested for stealing “Photographer Chris Coekin is interested in Manchester — 1984 potatoes, North Shields — Photographer unknown how the employees of this factory are the 32 Construction of the — Loaned by Ian Beesley — 17 August 1914 backbone of production. Coekin worked Manchester Ship — Tyne and Wear Archives closely with the workers on how they wished Canal, Manchester and Museums to be portrayed. The inspiration came from the — W E Birtles symbolism of trade union banners held in the — 1887-1893 collection here at the People’s History Museum. — Chetham’s Library, These images reproduce poses and stances Manchester that the banners portray. ” A UNIT OF SCALE OF A UNIT 33 Visit by Edward VIII 41 Steel making flushing slag, • to Dowlais Ironworks, Sheffield Dowlais, Wales — Photographer unknown — Photographer unknown — Date unknown Industrial — 1936 — People’s History Museum — People’s History Museum 42 Man cages made by 34 Steeplejacks on Lister’s Vickers Armstrong, society Mill chimney, Bradford Tyne and Wear — C H Wood — Photographer unknown Curated by — Date unknown — April 1936 in image — Museums and Galleries, — Tyne and Wear Archives City of Bradford MDC and Museums Ian Beesley 35 Grand slam bombs, 43 Repairing locomotives, and word Newcastle Scotswood Works, with poetry by 6 Feb. — — Photographer unknown Newcastle — 7 January 1945 — Photographer unknown • Ian McMillan — Tyne and Wear Archives — April 1948 14 Aug. and Museums — Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums 36 Boilerman, Victoria Mustard Works, Doncaster 44 Bob Scott surveys empty 2016 — Photographer unknown looms, Edward Street Mill, Photography is an industrial — 1900 Nelson — Doncaster Heritage Services — Photographer unknown process born out of the — 1952 37 Wool scourer, Whiteheads — People’s History Museum Mill, Laisterdyke, Bradford Industrial Revolution. However, — Ian Beesley 45 Transformer, Leeds the archives of the north of — 1985 — Photographer unknown representations of workers — Loaned by the photographer — 1890s — Leeds Museums and Galleries England’s industrial towns and 38 Coal cutter, Doncaster are often problematic and this (Leeds Industrial Museum) — Photographer unknown cities. Each image is placed in — Date unknown 46 West Yorkshire Foundries, exhibition seeks to understand — National Coal Mining Leeds Museum for England — Photographer unknown a theme that explores the — 1950s this tense and sometimes 39 Oil worker, Alaska — Collection Ian Beesley changing relationship between — Photographer unknown difficult relationship. On — 24 April 1974 47 Construction of — People’s History Museum Chadderton power “Around the time of WWI the group photograph of the workforce the image, the worker and station, Manchester became more sophisticated. Instead of regimented lines, display are unseen and 40 Housing clearance, — Richard Gee photographers constructed complex compositions. Examples Liverpool the landscape. Original poetry — 1951 such as these of railway cleaners would have involved a — Photographer unknown unpublished photographs from — Collection Ian Beesley considerable amount of time, organisation and persuasion.” — Date unknown by Ian McMillan gives voice — People’s History Museum, 48 The construction of image © Report Digital the Manchester Ship to those workers depicted Canal, Manchester — W E Birtles — 1887-1893 here, silenced and forgotten — Chetham’s Library, Manchester by history. THE INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE SELF REPRESENTATION 49 Gloucester Street, 96 Demolition of housing for 113 Weaving sheds and Newcastle the building of Bowling terraced housing, Bradford — Jimmy Forsyth Iron Works, Bradford — Ian Beesley — 1957 — Photographer unknown — 1984 — Collection Ian Beesley — about 1870 — Loaned by the photographer — Museums and Galleries, 50 Demolition men, 114 Dean Clough Mills, Halifax City of Bradford MDC Newcastle — Ian Beesley — Jimmy Forsyth 97 Coal mine and sheep, — 1982 — 21 September 1956 Location unknown — Loaned by the photographer — Tyne and Wear Archives — Photographer unknown 115 Trafford Park, Manchester and Museums — Date unknown — John Bulmer — People’s History Museum 51 Fanny Morgan and — 1976 her sister, Fryston 98 Elswick Shipyard, — Loaned by the photographer — Jack Hulme Newcastle upon Tyne 105 Savoy engine, Lumle 116 Gasholder, Bradford — Date unknown — Photographer unknown Thicks, County Durham — C H Wood — Courtesy of Wakefield Council — 1885 — Photographer unknown — 1950s — Tyne and Wear Archives 52 The Altogether, John — 1874 — Museums and Galleries, and Museums Pring & Son, Sandbach — Leeds Museums and Galleries City of Bradford MDC — Chris Coekin 99 Steel works, Sheffield (Leeds Industrial Museum) 117 The Black Country, Tipton — 2011 — E Hoppe 106 Mill Chimneys, Bolton — John Bulmer — Loaned by the photographer — 1940 “During the closure of the McCormick’s factory in Doncaster workers — Humphrey Spender — 1961 — Collection Ian Beesley 53 The Altogether, John were asked to direct photographer Ian Beesley on how they wished to — Date unknown — Collection Ian Beesley Pring & Son, Sandbach be photographed. This tyre fitter stated 100 Smoking chimneys, — On loan from Bolton 118 Mills clearance, Bradford — Chris Coekin ‘I would like to be photographed in the tyre bay, in the middle of one Bradford Library & Museum Services — Ian Beesley — 2011 of the biggest tyres, as this was the centre of my working life. I would — C H Wood 107 Workers’ huts, — 1982 — Loaned by the photographer like to be sat down, because